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MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS
JSC ENRICHMENT
Page 6
JOHNSON'S LOCK AND
KEY SERVICE
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hckm. Mm R. >->2«*
It's Like a
Dream Com* True!!
For $2.00 o day per person, you and
your family can spend your vacation
on Mississippi's Baautiful Culf Coast
at Culf Pinai, Waveland, Mississippi.
For Information writ*: Vacation Unlimited, co 415 N. Farish, Jackson.
,> FOURTH STKET
l? DRUG STORE
"'Clarkulala's maustem, Drug
in reuiTc mirr
CUMMSPAU. Mitt.
Mill Ifela 111
Aana Plaury — CMtM laill
MLS Drug Store 1
Prrsi riptionf • 1 ree Delivery 1
Fmmtai* Sense*
Sxhtms Smmovmnt • iak, N««* |
H 5-0ISO 1304 Lvnch. Jackson 1
ALBERT'S FLOWER SHOPPE
POf PUnti—Cut f lOWWf
Funeral Designs—Flowers by Wire
1615 Topp Ave.
Call 24 hrs. 355-8035
"Serving facks.a Sines It4."
[ BOOT'S s
0 Flowers For All N
w Occasions 0
* B17 N. PARISH ST. *
R JACKSON • Ft 3 4232
. .
"Plaasint Tm — PlMMt Vs*
0 t I SHOE REPAIR
ret All Your Shea Meeds
Hit Lrack St. — FL 2 »J4«
Peoples Associates; Inc.
Peoples Burial Association, Inc.
Peoples Funeral Home, inc.
— Jackson's Finest —
806 N. F.rish FL 5-4707
CATCHINGS
MOTOR SERVICE
Pnont PI 1-MlS
Lyssck at Dallas, lackeaa
JONES PHARMACY
fa ausiuem Pes Tear
Health
Dial Fl J-8IS1
F*M DELIVERY
• 11 track Straw
lackaaa. Miaa.
FARRIER'S
LION SERVICE STATION
"Whor. Sank. Ii Ous Most
ImpeHsut Product-
C«MI IfMk ft Htmtsttm
Jackson Fl 5-94*5
Luckett's Food Mart
*Whfr* Meats Are Fresh
Evertjttmc"
Free Delivery
819 N. FARISH
n. ■ 4SS7
Conic's Beauty and
Barber Supply
415 No. Farish Street
PL 3-326*
l'rzzzzvr.™zz'. 33SC
inn^xnnn
unmaunn;:
SHOP FOX FOR FURNITURE!
Come in and Open
A Credit Account
Well Save You
MONEY!
410 NORTH FAftlSH
Opposite Collins Funeral Home
Tolophons FL 2-5443
iiri'.nniir, .iji,:iaiiiu:iiumnnni
MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS
COFO Youngsters...
(Continued from Page 5)
thrown into a home where
Summer Project volunteers stay and a project
car was burned where it
was parked outside a home
in Mlleston where project
workers live.
On July 25 whites attacked three project workers in separate incidents
while a group of volunteers were distributing
freedom registration
forms in the Negro area
of Greenwood. A shot was
fired into the home of
Silas McGee, the young
man who was beaten in a
local movie theater in
Greenwood. The beating
prompted the first arrests
under the civil rights act
on July 23 when three
white men were arrested.
On July 26 a white mob
gathered outside the movie theatre while Mr. McGee and his brother, Jake,
were inside. Jake McGee
was struck as he left the
theater and as the two
brothers entered a car
they were injured by flying glass when a bottle
was thrown through the
car window. At the hospital they and a group of
persons including SNCC
worker, Judy Richardson,
who had answered their
call for help remained inside the hospital because
whites had gathered and
police had refused protection. After about an hour
they were escorted to the
SNCC office and the McGee home by police and
the sheriff.
The home of two FDP
leaders in Hattiesburg
was bombed on July'25,
a rock smashed the window of a car of a local
person housing civil
rights workers and a bottle was thrown through the
window of the Clarksdale
office.
During the week other
incidents included the
beating of a white volunteer, Robert David Os-
man, on a downtown Jackson street on July 22.
On the same day the Mount
Vernon Missionary Baptist church about six miles
east of Magnolia was
burned. SNCC workers
who arrived in Natchez
July 21 to begin voter
registration work reported that the police followed
them constantly and the
police chief said police
would be with them "every minute" to "keep
them off schedule."
FDP s To Support Notional
Democratic Party
But despite harass-
ments, arrests, beatings,
bombings and burnings,
successful precinct and
Saturday, August 1,1964
county meetings continue
to be held and freedom
registration continues.
The first Freedom Democratic Party County convention held near Canton
July 25 adopted a resolution of loyalty to the
principles of the National
Democratic Party and instructed delegates to support those who would work
for the election of Lyndon
Johnson. The convention
also called for a strong
and enforceable civil
rights plank in the national platform. About 300
persons attended the
open-air convention, of
whom 102 were voting delegates elected at the precinct level. The convention, totally under the direction of Mississippi citizens of Madison County,
was chaired by Mrs. Annie Devine. Mrs. Devine
is a member of the temporary state executive
committee of the Freedom Democratic Party
and secretary of the Madison County Movement.
On July 26 county conventions were held in Carthage, Moss Point and
Mayers ville.
Residents of all-Negro
Harmony community near
Carthage began building
a wooden frame building
for use as a community
center by Mississippi
Project volunteers on July 24. A three-man board
of trustees obtained land
and financing for the center, purchased lumber and
hired a carpenter to direct the work of local
residents.
The original plans
called for use of an abandoned school building, but
local school and law enforcement officials maintained the school was
county property and could
not be used. Negroes
claim the property, which
was set aside for a school
site by Negro landowners,
can be used by them for
the recreational and educational project. Leaving the conflict unsettled
Negro citizens have begun construction of the
new center.
Other community centers are under construction in Mileston and Shaw.
Incomplete Freedom
Registration figures to
July 26 are: Columbus,
1339; Greenwood, 3,384;
Clarksdale, 2,879; Greenville, 2,971; Holly Springs,
2,890; Ruleville, 884; Tc-
hula, 725; Jackson, 2,658;
McComb, 573; Vicksburg,
1,592; Canton, 2,000; Meridian, 2,225; Laurel, 350;
Gulfport, 1,567; Moss
Point-Pascagoula, 2,000.
JSC
ENRICHMENT
The Second Summer
Session Enrichment Project, supported by grants
from Field and Ford
Foundations, began at
Jackson State College on
July 4. Seventy superior
and talented students and
ten in-service teachers
are enrolled. Unoike the
First Summer Session,
these teachers and students are primarily from
parts of Mississippi outside the Jackson area. The
first group was made up
of students primarily
from four high schools in
the Jackson area—Lanier,
Brinkley, Jim Hill and
Holy Ghost.
Highlights of the summer's work have been
field trips to Washington
and the New York World's
Fair, and tours to Grenada, Knoxville College,
Fisk, Peabody, Tennessee
State, Howard, and Dil-
lard. The New York -
Washington trip was chaperoned by Misses Lydia
K. Johnson and Nida Harris, both teachers at Lanier High School.
Theater Group...
(Continued from Page 3)
ducing director of the
Free Southern Theater.
The main objectives of
the Free Southern Theater
are set forth in a short
pamphlet. "By themselves, protest and political action cannot sufficiently alter the present
situation. In the South today, there is an educational and cultural void
which must be filled. For
this purpose, the theater
is uniquely equipped."
"The Free Southern
Theater will act as a stimulus to the critical
thought necessary for effective participation in a
democratic society."
Gilbert Moses, director of the first production, In White America"
says that "all performances of the Free Southern
Theater in Mississippi
will be presented free of
charge. Our budget will
depend solely on the contributions of those who
believe in us and in what
we are trying to do." The
cast of the show includes
several talented young
actors. John O'Neal,Eric
Wienberger, Denise Nicholas, Susan Tabor, Lester P. Gait and Gilbert
Moses.
The performance is
scheduled for Friday, July 31 at the Continental
Lounge in West Jackson.

Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.

MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS
JSC ENRICHMENT
Page 6
JOHNSON'S LOCK AND
KEY SERVICE
->2«*
It's Like a
Dream Com* True!!
For $2.00 o day per person, you and
your family can spend your vacation
on Mississippi's Baautiful Culf Coast
at Culf Pinai, Waveland, Mississippi.
For Information writ*: Vacation Unlimited, co 415 N. Farish, Jackson.
,> FOURTH STKET
l? DRUG STORE
"'Clarkulala's maustem, Drug
in reuiTc mirr
CUMMSPAU. Mitt.
Mill Ifela 111
Aana Plaury — CMtM laill
MLS Drug Store 1
Prrsi riptionf • 1 ree Delivery 1
Fmmtai* Sense*
Sxhtms Smmovmnt • iak, N««* |
H 5-0ISO 1304 Lvnch. Jackson 1
ALBERT'S FLOWER SHOPPE
POf PUnti—Cut f lOWWf
Funeral Designs—Flowers by Wire
1615 Topp Ave.
Call 24 hrs. 355-8035
"Serving facks.a Sines It4."
[ BOOT'S s
0 Flowers For All N
w Occasions 0
* B17 N. PARISH ST. *
R JACKSON • Ft 3 4232
. .
"Plaasint Tm — PlMMt Vs*
0 t I SHOE REPAIR
ret All Your Shea Meeds
Hit Lrack St. — FL 2 »J4«
Peoples Associates; Inc.
Peoples Burial Association, Inc.
Peoples Funeral Home, inc.
— Jackson's Finest —
806 N. F.rish FL 5-4707
CATCHINGS
MOTOR SERVICE
Pnont PI 1-MlS
Lyssck at Dallas, lackeaa
JONES PHARMACY
fa ausiuem Pes Tear
Health
Dial Fl J-8IS1
F*M DELIVERY
• 11 track Straw
lackaaa. Miaa.
FARRIER'S
LION SERVICE STATION
"Whor. Sank. Ii Ous Most
ImpeHsut Product-
C«MI IfMk ft Htmtsttm
Jackson Fl 5-94*5
Luckett's Food Mart
*Whfr* Meats Are Fresh
Evertjttmc"
Free Delivery
819 N. FARISH
n. ■ 4SS7
Conic's Beauty and
Barber Supply
415 No. Farish Street
PL 3-326*
l'rzzzzvr.™zz'. 33SC
inn^xnnn
unmaunn;:
SHOP FOX FOR FURNITURE!
Come in and Open
A Credit Account
Well Save You
MONEY!
410 NORTH FAftlSH
Opposite Collins Funeral Home
Tolophons FL 2-5443
iiri'.nniir, .iji,:iaiiiu:iiumnnni
MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS
COFO Youngsters...
(Continued from Page 5)
thrown into a home where
Summer Project volunteers stay and a project
car was burned where it
was parked outside a home
in Mlleston where project
workers live.
On July 25 whites attacked three project workers in separate incidents
while a group of volunteers were distributing
freedom registration
forms in the Negro area
of Greenwood. A shot was
fired into the home of
Silas McGee, the young
man who was beaten in a
local movie theater in
Greenwood. The beating
prompted the first arrests
under the civil rights act
on July 23 when three
white men were arrested.
On July 26 a white mob
gathered outside the movie theatre while Mr. McGee and his brother, Jake,
were inside. Jake McGee
was struck as he left the
theater and as the two
brothers entered a car
they were injured by flying glass when a bottle
was thrown through the
car window. At the hospital they and a group of
persons including SNCC
worker, Judy Richardson,
who had answered their
call for help remained inside the hospital because
whites had gathered and
police had refused protection. After about an hour
they were escorted to the
SNCC office and the McGee home by police and
the sheriff.
The home of two FDP
leaders in Hattiesburg
was bombed on July'25,
a rock smashed the window of a car of a local
person housing civil
rights workers and a bottle was thrown through the
window of the Clarksdale
office.
During the week other
incidents included the
beating of a white volunteer, Robert David Os-
man, on a downtown Jackson street on July 22.
On the same day the Mount
Vernon Missionary Baptist church about six miles
east of Magnolia was
burned. SNCC workers
who arrived in Natchez
July 21 to begin voter
registration work reported that the police followed
them constantly and the
police chief said police
would be with them "every minute" to "keep
them off schedule."
FDP s To Support Notional
Democratic Party
But despite harass-
ments, arrests, beatings,
bombings and burnings,
successful precinct and
Saturday, August 1,1964
county meetings continue
to be held and freedom
registration continues.
The first Freedom Democratic Party County convention held near Canton
July 25 adopted a resolution of loyalty to the
principles of the National
Democratic Party and instructed delegates to support those who would work
for the election of Lyndon
Johnson. The convention
also called for a strong
and enforceable civil
rights plank in the national platform. About 300
persons attended the
open-air convention, of
whom 102 were voting delegates elected at the precinct level. The convention, totally under the direction of Mississippi citizens of Madison County,
was chaired by Mrs. Annie Devine. Mrs. Devine
is a member of the temporary state executive
committee of the Freedom Democratic Party
and secretary of the Madison County Movement.
On July 26 county conventions were held in Carthage, Moss Point and
Mayers ville.
Residents of all-Negro
Harmony community near
Carthage began building
a wooden frame building
for use as a community
center by Mississippi
Project volunteers on July 24. A three-man board
of trustees obtained land
and financing for the center, purchased lumber and
hired a carpenter to direct the work of local
residents.
The original plans
called for use of an abandoned school building, but
local school and law enforcement officials maintained the school was
county property and could
not be used. Negroes
claim the property, which
was set aside for a school
site by Negro landowners,
can be used by them for
the recreational and educational project. Leaving the conflict unsettled
Negro citizens have begun construction of the
new center.
Other community centers are under construction in Mileston and Shaw.
Incomplete Freedom
Registration figures to
July 26 are: Columbus,
1339; Greenwood, 3,384;
Clarksdale, 2,879; Greenville, 2,971; Holly Springs,
2,890; Ruleville, 884; Tc-
hula, 725; Jackson, 2,658;
McComb, 573; Vicksburg,
1,592; Canton, 2,000; Meridian, 2,225; Laurel, 350;
Gulfport, 1,567; Moss
Point-Pascagoula, 2,000.
JSC
ENRICHMENT
The Second Summer
Session Enrichment Project, supported by grants
from Field and Ford
Foundations, began at
Jackson State College on
July 4. Seventy superior
and talented students and
ten in-service teachers
are enrolled. Unoike the
First Summer Session,
these teachers and students are primarily from
parts of Mississippi outside the Jackson area. The
first group was made up
of students primarily
from four high schools in
the Jackson area—Lanier,
Brinkley, Jim Hill and
Holy Ghost.
Highlights of the summer's work have been
field trips to Washington
and the New York World's
Fair, and tours to Grenada, Knoxville College,
Fisk, Peabody, Tennessee
State, Howard, and Dil-
lard. The New York -
Washington trip was chaperoned by Misses Lydia
K. Johnson and Nida Harris, both teachers at Lanier High School.
Theater Group...
(Continued from Page 3)
ducing director of the
Free Southern Theater.
The main objectives of
the Free Southern Theater
are set forth in a short
pamphlet. "By themselves, protest and political action cannot sufficiently alter the present
situation. In the South today, there is an educational and cultural void
which must be filled. For
this purpose, the theater
is uniquely equipped."
"The Free Southern
Theater will act as a stimulus to the critical
thought necessary for effective participation in a
democratic society."
Gilbert Moses, director of the first production, In White America"
says that "all performances of the Free Southern
Theater in Mississippi
will be presented free of
charge. Our budget will
depend solely on the contributions of those who
believe in us and in what
we are trying to do." The
cast of the show includes
several talented young
actors. John O'Neal,Eric
Wienberger, Denise Nicholas, Susan Tabor, Lester P. Gait and Gilbert
Moses.
The performance is
scheduled for Friday, July 31 at the Continental
Lounge in West Jackson.

Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.